AfrikaBurn Community Events

We’re pleased to invite you to join us for the first AfrikaBurn Film Festival. While AfrikaBurn may inspire you to quit your job as a lawyer and build art in the middle of the desert, it also inspires filmmakers from around the world to undertake the ‘you must be nuts’ process of creating moving art that lives beyond the Binnekring and on a cinema screen. This film festival celebrates the artists and creatives who are brave enough to venture into Tankwa Town, including those who are armed with nothing but a camera and a media pass. Both main feature films will be preceded by other AfrikaBurn short films … made by you!

In 2023, the Lovebox Experience landed at AfrikaBurn, part spaceship, part art project, resulting in an intimate documentary about love, vulnerability, human connection, and the radical possibility of truly meeting one another in a divided world. Whether or not you took part in this experiment yourself, you’ll be fascinated to see how the Lovebox shows our openness to others and the different ways we are all seen.

In 2024, inspired by his experience the previous year as a participant at AfrikaBurn, Rob Dos Santos and his team decided to do something that had never been done before: to make a scripted feature film … during the event, with a spontaneous mix of actors and volunteer participants. This Is How The World Ends was written after Rob’s first AfrikaBurn, and this film is the amazing result. Rob’s story is as much a triumph of filmmaking as it is of creativity in the desert … with no room for retakes when you’re trying to film in a Karoo sandstorm

We’re doing STREETOPIA OBS again! It’s the last Saturday of November (28th), from 10am to 6pm, in the centre of Obs, and you’re invited! Streetopia is a yearly event hosted in Observatory, as a means to bring some of the delicious AfrikaBurn magic to the city. There’s art, there’s performances, there’s cool music and a host of people doing crazy things. It is again being supported by the City of Cape Town and recognised as a Special Event in their annual calendar. It’s FREE It’s FAMILY FRIENDLY It’s FUN